Thank This Lady for Chocolate Chip Cookies
© Con PoulosThe Week in Food looks at noteworthy food or food-related inventions, announcements and other "firsts" throughout history.耐嚼的,易碎的和经常脆,巧克力太极拳p cookies are an obsession of first-time bakers and experts. But the perfect and seemingly obvious combination of semisweet chocolate bits and sweet, buttery dough is actually the result of a baking accident by a woman born this week, on June 17, in 1903.The delicious accident. >>>
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Jessica Sullivan'sGanache-Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies/ © Con Poulos
The Week in Food looks at noteworthy food or food-related inventions, announcements and other "firsts" throughout history.
- 耐嚼的,易碎的和经常脆,巧克力太极拳p cookies are an obsession of first-time bakers and experts. But the perfect and seemingly obvious combination of semisweet chocolate bits and sweet, buttery dough is actually the result of a baking accident by a woman born this week, on June 17, in 1903.Ruth Graves Wakefield, owner of a Massachusetts lodge called the Toll House Inn, invented the chocolate chip cookie in the 1930s when she ran out of baker's chocolate while preparing butter cookies and decided to substitute cut-up pieces of semisweet chocolate. Instead of melting and blending into the dough as she’d hoped, the chips maintained their shape, but also became soft and creamy in the oven.
- Today, chefs and home cooks riff endlessly on the original Toll House recipe, like San Francisco pastry chefJessica Sullivan, who created theseindulgent chocolate chip cookie sandwichespacked with walnuts and sealed together with silky chocolate ganache.
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